| There is a huge problem in the truck washing industry | | | | Robotics is the answer to the unemployment issue, |
| right now and that is the labor shortage. Truck washes | | | | however the robotics currently in the industry are |
| cannot afford to hire illegal aliens because they might | | | | unable to clean the truck more than about 90%, the |
| be caught and shut down. And truck drivers tend to | | | | last 10% needs to be done by humans because |
| not like illegal aliens because they are upset that | | | | someone has to get between all the spaces where |
| Mexican truck drivers are taking their business away | | | | the rollover truck washes cannot get to. Consider |
| and costing truckers their jobs, therefore will | | | | trying to soap around all the windows, handles, |
| immediately turn them in. | | | | smokestack and fuel tanks; thus you can see the |
| Nevertheless the real truth is that there is a shortage | | | | problem. |
| of 185,000 truck drivers expected by the end of 2008. | | | | Optical flow sensors and other sensors that are used |
| The labor shortage in the United States for quality | | | | in robotics need to be used in the truck wash tunnels |
| labor to work in truck washes is also very hard to get | | | | to ensure that the truck is washed 100%. This will take |
| considering the unemployment rate currently in the | | | | some reengineering in the industry although it is the only |
| United States of America is only 4.7%. Therefore is | | | | way the truck washes will ever be able to compete |
| necessary for robotic truck washes to do the work | | | | with human labor and quality. Please consider all this in |
| rather than human beings. | | | | 2006. |